diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 35b9e84..f0a6d3c 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -2,6 +2,9 @@
 .vscode/
 bin/
 obj/
+venv/
+
+build/
 
 *.layout
 *.depend
@@ -19,6 +22,8 @@ tools/doc/sfwl.cpp
 libs/
 *.bmp
 
+compile_commands.json
+
 *.o
 
 game
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c68bcdc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -0,0 +1,59 @@
+# Thanks to Job Vranish (https://spin.atomicobject.com/2016/08/26/makefile-c-projects/)
+TARGET_EXEC := final_program
+
+BUILD_DIR := ./build
+SRC_DIRS := ./sfw
+
+# Find all the C and C++ files we want to compile
+# Note the single quotes around the * expressions. The shell will incorrectly expand these otherwise, but we want to send the * directly to the find command.
+SRCS := $(shell find $(SRC_DIRS) -name '*.cpp' -or -name '*.c' -or -name '*.s')
+
+# Prepends BUILD_DIR and appends .o to every src file
+# As an example, ./your_dir/hello.cpp turns into ./build/./your_dir/hello.cpp.o
+OBJS := $(SRCS:%=$(BUILD_DIR)/%.o)
+
+# String substitution (suffix version without %).
+# As an example, ./build/hello.cpp.o turns into ./build/hello.cpp.d
+DEPS := $(OBJS:.o=.d)
+
+# Every folder in ./src will need to be passed to GCC so that it can find header files
+INC_DIRS := $(shell find $(SRC_DIRS) -type d)
+# Add a prefix to INC_DIRS. So moduleA would become -ImoduleA. GCC understands this -I flag
+INC_FLAGS := $(addprefix -I,$(INC_DIRS))
+
+# The -MMD and -MP flags together generate Makefiles for us!
+# These files will have .d instead of .o as the output.
+CPPFLAGS := $(INC_FLAGS) -MMD -MP -D_REENTRANT -Wall
+
+LDFLAGS := -lm -ldl -lpthread -lX11 -Wall
+
+#CXXFLAGS = -Wall -D_REENTRANT -g -Isfw
+#LDFLAGS = -Wall   -D_REENTRANT -g
+
+
+# The final build step.
+$(BUILD_DIR)/$(TARGET_EXEC): $(OBJS)
+	$(CXX) $(OBJS) -o $@ $(LDFLAGS)
+
+# Build step for C source
+$(BUILD_DIR)/%.c.o: %.c
+	mkdir -p $(dir $@)
+	$(CC) $(CPPFLAGS) $(CFLAGS) -c $< -o $@
+
+# Build step for C++ source
+$(BUILD_DIR)/%.cpp.o: %.cpp
+	mkdir -p $(dir $@)
+	$(CXX) $(CPPFLAGS) $(CXXFLAGS) -c $< -o $@
+
+
+.PHONY: clean
+clean:
+	rm -r $(BUILD_DIR)
+
+# Include the .d makefiles. The - at the front suppresses the errors of missing
+# Makefiles. Initially, all the .d files will be missing, and we don't want those
+# errors to show up.
+-include $(DEPS)
+	
+
+